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PINCH and punch for the first day of July!!!
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TODAY we reached the middle of the year – 183 days gone and another 183 days to go before we say goodbye to 2016 and welcome 2017.
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FOUND this interesting to share that healthy youths are highly productive thus the burden in the society will be reduced. Youth is categorised as a person between 10 and 19 years of age. Youths carry the highest risks of morbidity and mortality from accidents, injuries, early pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections.
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LIFESTYLES such as smoking, risky sexual behaviour, alcohol and drug dependency have their ways to direct other energy to high risk behaviour. Youths and each and every family member should realise that healthy developed will make productive adults with longer working lives and increased productivity.
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WHAT is it with people especially males who go against power poles, trees, corrugated fences to take a leak and mind you in full view of the public? The city authority should be coming down on the perpetrators or before we know it will become a norm to stop anywhere and take a leak.
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WHICH brings us to call the city authority to start building toilets so those who want to attend to nature call, have a proper place to conduct their business.
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CHARACTERISED by their corkscrew-like shaft, Solomonic columns draw their name from the Biblical description of the two columns that famously flanked the entrance to the Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem, built in the 10th c BCE. According to tradition, that temple was the source of a set of columns brought to Rome by Constantine the Great in the 4th c CE for the original St. Peter’s Basilica, where several of the pillars still remain.
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ROBERT Ballard is an American oceanographer and marine geologist. While working at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Research Institution, he pioneered the use of deep-diving submersibles, took part in the first manned exploration of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, and discovered warm water springs and the unusual animal communities that grow up around them in the Galápagos Rift. He is best known for his dramatic discovery of the wreck of the Titanic in 1985.
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THE Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire) gained independence from Belgium on this day in 1960. It had been a Belgian colony since 1907, and powerful movements had struggled for self-rule since the 1950s.
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QUOTE of the day: When you cannot get a compliment in any other way, pay yourself one. – Mark Twain
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